Monday, October 17, 2011

[Slashdot] Headlines for 2011-10-18

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What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years?
from the first-century-is-the-best dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @08:07 (Medicine)
with 783 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/0333248/what-happens-when-the-average-lifespan-is-150-years?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Pi Computed To 10 Trillion Digits
from the because-he-can dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @02:07 (Math)
with 385 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/0320259/pi-computed-to-10-trillion-digits?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Amazon Bypassing Publishers By Signing Authors Directly
from the it-was-the-spring-of-hope,-it-was-the-winter-of-despair dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, @15:02 (Books)
with 335 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1821244/amazon-bypassing-publishers-by-signing-authors-directly?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You?
from the dead-man's-chili dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @11:12 (Biotech)
with 300 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1358244/can-the-hottest-peppers-in-the-world-kill-you?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers
from the old-news dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @10:09 (Earth)
with 227 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1321225/comet-may-have-missed-earth-by-a-few-hundred-kilometers?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Time Zone Database Has New Home After Lawsuit
from the let-us-handle-this dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @12:15 (The Courts)
with 207 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1555201/time-zone-database-has-new-home-after-lawsuit?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Verizon Wireless Changes Privacy Policy
from the changing-the-rules dept.
posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 16, @22:46 (Privacy)
with 196 comments
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/0046253/verizon-wireless-changes-privacy-policy?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Electrical Power From Humans
from the don't-give-them-any-ideas dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, @14:19 (Biotech)
with 189 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1749258/electrical-power-from-humans?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

All-Electric DeLorean Car To Hit the Streets In 2013
from the great-scot dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, @19:17 (Transportation)
with 184 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/2217221/all-electric-delorean-car-to-hit-the-streets-in-2013?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri
from the let-your-phone-do-the-talking dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @09:28 (Google)
with 169 comments
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1223232/google-improves-android-translator-to-battle-siri?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

SF Authors Predict Computing's Future
from the mentalnet-is-like-a-series-of-tubes dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, @16:25 (Sci-Fi)
with 156 comments
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/195244/sf-authors-predict-computings-future?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

William Shatner Answers, in 826 Words
from the time-and-space-mean-nothing-and-everything dept.
posted by timothy on Monday October 17, @12:57 (Books)
with 150 comments
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/150212/william-shatner-answers-in-826-words?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Dutch Court Rejects Samsung Patent Claims Against Apple
from the we-don't-think-so dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @05:14 (Patents)
with 132 comments
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/0325220/dutch-court-rejects-samsung-patent-claims-against-apple?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

RIM Offers Free Apps Following Outage
from the please-come-back dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @10:50 (Blackberry)
with 121 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1348230/rim-offers-free-apps-following-outage?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

NoScript For Android Devices Released
from the temporarily-allow-dept-line dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, @15:42 (Android)
with 83 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1852219/noscript-for-android-devices-released?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Verizon's 'Can You Hear Me Now' Fleet Testing 4G
from the wardriving-for-the-man dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @11:33 (Verizon)
with 80 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1448208/verizons-can-you-hear-me-now-fleet-testing-4g?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

NASA Charters Flights Aboard Virgin's SpaceShipTwo
from the branson's-upper-atmosphere-experience dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, @13:38 (NASA)
with 65 comments
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1728232/nasa-charters-flights-aboard-virgins-spaceshiptwo?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Original Content Coming To YouTube?
from the blurring-content-platforms dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, @17:48 (Youtube)
with 62 comments
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/2043252/original-content-coming-to-youtube?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Nanomaterial May Allow Devices to Rewire Themselves
from the future-is-now dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @08:47 (Technology)
with 60 comments
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1131256/nanomaterial-may-allow-devices-to-rewire-themselves?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Analysis of 250,000 Hacker Conversations
from the strange-predilection-for-pancakes dept.
posted by Soulskill on Monday October 17, @18:32 (Security)
with 55 comments
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/2119255/analysis-of-250000-hacker-conversations?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

Book Review: The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood
from the read-all-about-it dept.
posted by samzenpus on Monday October 17, @17:07 (Books)
with 28 comments
http://books.slashdot.org/story/11/10/17/1426233/book-review-the-information-a-history-a-theory-a-flood?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email

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